Gradium has open-sourced Phonon, a family of on-device text-to-speech models. The English Phonon 31m ships under Apache 2.0, fits in 64.5 MB, and starts speaking in about 7 ms on a laptop CPU. The post Gradium Open-Sour…
Open-weights releases pressure closed pricing and widen access, changing the build-vs-buy math for the whole ecosystem.
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